[ I'm sure our European and Australian friends are loving this thread. - Ed. ]
In case any of you - San Franciscans, wealthy ISP owners (hehehehe), etc. -
are still pondering whether to hop in your cars or catch a plane out here
to Los Angeles for Organic ...
Organic is still happening. The hours are now from 6 PM to 6 AM, instead of
being from 3 PM to 8 AM which is what they were supposed to be up at
the Snow Valley ski resort. Presumably, lopping off 5 hours' worth of
time will affect the schedule in some way. Or they might split the acts in
half because of the two buildings available to use, which would royally suck.
Because of the fires in the mountains not too far from Snow Valley, and
because (at the time) we thought the hurricane fed by the El Nino was
going to dump loads of rain on us and bring cold to the mountains, the
Organic promoters chickened out and moved the event down to the National
Orange Show in San Bernardino (at the base of said mountains). It's a safe
location, but played out and boring at this point. Sigh ... and of course
I'm sure there's no problem with the aftermath of the fire and the weather
in the mountains is just fine now ... :-(
The final lineup:
Main stage:
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Sneaker Pimps
Aphex Twin
Guadaloop
Talvin Singh
Supersonic ["formerly known as Supercharger UK"]
The Crystal Method
Faithless
Main stage DJ's:
Luke Vibert
David Holmes
Josh Wink
Derrick Dahlarge
Justin Robertson [so it appears it's not Lionrock playing live. - Ed.]
DJ Q
Jonny L
MC Jason Bentley
The local-yokel areas:
System #2 (Funky breaks):
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Liquid Todd
Gary Richards (DJ Destructo)
Alien Tom
The Bud Brothers
John Kelley
System #3 (House):
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Mark Lewis
JJ Brown
RTR
System #4 (Drum n' Bass):
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Raymond Roker (Urb magazine, Science)
Jun (Science)
Curious
Machete
Helix
Info:
(213) 960-5077
(619) 492-8097
(909) 424-5024
(714) 647-5592
Crystal Method and Faithless were just added; the rumored addition of
Leftfield never materialized.
- Greg